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    • Peace on the Mountain

    • Peace on the Mountain

    • Terrain; Climate

    • Peru 16 WATSAN(water and sanitation) Volunteer Allison enjoys a breath-taking view on the mountain in Ingenio, Ica, Peru. The town of Ingenio, followed by the long since dried river bed depicts the water scarcity in our region. As much as us PCV...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Preparing the Fish

    • Preparing the Fish

    • Environment; Women and Development (WID)/Gender and Development (GAD); Women in Peace Corps

    • A village on the west coast of Madagascar, August 16th, 2011. A long day. Walked over 20 kilometers… 10 km to go, 10 km on the way back, and back and forth on the beach depending where the small boats full of fish would arrive. I had gotten up...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Primary School Students

    • Primary School Students

    • Women in Peace Corps; Children; Education; Schools

    • This is a farewell photo presented at the end of myservice (September,1975) and signed by the director of the school expressing appreciation for contributions to the students and community. The school was organized by a local association to provide...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Pupusas

    • Pupusas

    • Food and meals; Celebrations

    • Pupusas are the national snack of El Salvador. They are made with corn or rice flour, and stuffed with cheese and other ingredients (beans, chicharron, ayote, etc.). Pupusas are eaten in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, but El Salvador claims...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Rainbow Peace Ambassadors Drama

    • Rainbow Peace Ambassadors Drama

    • HIV/AIDS; Camps and clubs

    • The photo was taken in Uganda, November 2011. This was the Peace Club doing a drama for the community on Conflict Resolution/HIV/AIDS/Alcohol & Drugs. Over 500 people in the community attended. The Peace Club was developed when the youth...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Rainbow Peace Ambassadors Drama

    • Rainbow Peace Ambassadors Drama

    • HIV/AIDS; Camps and clubs

    • The photo was taken in Uganda, November 2011. This was the Peace Club doing a drama for the community on Conflict Resolution/HIV/AIDS/Alcohol & Drugs. Over 500 people in the community attended. The Peace Club was developed when the youth...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Reconnecting with Peace Corps in Ethiopia

    • Reconnecting with Peace Corps in Ethiopia

    • Libraries

    • I enlisted the support of current volunteers (2009) in Mekelle, Ethiopia to help set up a library project in memory of a colleague. The current volunteers were extremely helpful in setting up the library and are a continued source of support for...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Return Visit Seventeen Years Later

    • Return Visit Seventeen Years Later

    • Host families; Women in Peace Corps;

    • After 17 years I returned to visit my host family in Jequie. My host father Esmeraldo dos Santos loved to hunt and we visited many rural farms together. My host mother Maria had 13 children and invited me for Sunday dinner every week. My big...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Sarge Discusses the Peace Corps Name

    • Sarge Discusses the Peace Corps Name

    • Shriver, Sargent

    • Sarge was open and frank in his discussions with Philippine Group III Volunteers. We asked him about how the organization came to be named “Peace Corps,” if he thought that name wasn’t a bit pretentious and fatuous given the kind of...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • School of Journalism Instructors

    • School of Journalism Instructors

    • Host community friends; Women in Peace Corps

    • Local newspaper offered a journalism course during the evening that I attended as a student. I received a certificate of completion at a graduation ceremony in 1974. This program provided me an opportunity to improve my Portuguese language skills...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Students' First Visit to the Ocean in Jamaica

    • Students' First Visit to the Ocean in Jamaica

    • Work; Women in Peace Corps; Education; Girls' education; Environment

    • I took this photo on the north coast of Jamaica of students from my "Environmental Awareness" class at Knox Community College. This is was the first time most of them had ever been to the ocean or beach. I took them tidepooling and swimming. To get...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Summary of Report to the President on the Peace Corps

    • Summary of Report to the President on the Peace Corps

    • Volunteer selection; Volunteer recruitment; Technical training; Shriver, Sargent; Press and media; Kennedy, John F.;

    • This report outlines Sargent Shriver's initial assessment of how the concept of the Peace Corps could and should be implemented. The summary report was released to the media on March 5, 1961 by the Office of the White House Press Secretary.
    • Press Briefings
    • Sunset Sillouette

    • Sunset Sillouette

    • Peace Corps Response (Crisis Corps); terrain

    • I took this photo while visiting a fellow PCV in Laoang, Philippines, on May 14, 2011. We had both just arrived in country as Peace Corps Response Volunteers two weeks before. My friend wanted to show me the beautiful white sand swimming beaches...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Teaching Multimedia Workshops

    • Teaching Multimedia Workshops

    • Peace Corps Response (Crisis Corps); Host community

    • I took this photo on June 29, 2011, during one of my multimedia workshops I facilitated as a Peace Corps Response Volunteer in Calbayog, Philippines. I came to Calbayog to train staff members of the SOS Children's Village how to produce their own...
    • Volunteer Photos

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